Speakers

François joined AXA Investment Managers in 2007 as an investment analyst focusing on CDOs and is now Co-Head of Secured Finance within AXA IM Alts’ Alternative Credit team. He was previously a portfolio manager on CLO Equity strategies as well as leading private asset-backed opportunities. François is directly involved in the portfolio management of AXA IM’s structured Finance permanent capital vehicle, Volta Finance Limited and is a voting member of the CLO Equity investment committee.

Over his career at AXA IM, he led multiple investments across the capital structure, including reverse inquiries to CLO managers in Europe and the US, enabling to build a differentiating sourcing channel for investors and to convince US CLO managers to make their CLO compliant with EU Risk retention requirements.

He also worked on special situations within the structured credit space, led AXA IM lobbying efforts on regulations impacting CLOs and pushed corporate actions to CLO managers through the GFC like purchase of their own CLO liabilities at a discount. In 2006 and 2007, he worked for Natixis AM as an analyst where he launched a CDO Equity Fund.

He previously spent one year with BNP Paribas CIB portfolio management department, working on the CIB balance-sheet CLO and other structured credit investment opportunities. He majored in Finance from French business school Telecom – Ecole de Management and holds a postgraduate degree in Management from Dauphine University in Paris.